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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 



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pistil. " I give them a good ilusting," said Mr. George, " you 

 can't hurt them." 



The groat rango of Peach houses is a sight worth seeing, the 

 trees being in the greatest hixuriance and Htorally studded 

 with fruit. Mr. George's experience of Early York as a forcing 

 I'each is that it grows well and sets well, hut goes off in 

 stoning, and that Early Grosse Mignonne is far superior to 

 it for this purpose. Here is something new — a new mode of 

 setting Peaches. Mr. George says, " I have not time to fiddle 

 about with camel's-hair penchs fertilising the Peach blossoms, 

 and so whenever the first house is ready I bring in a hive of 

 bees, and feed them well on sugar and water (no beer). When 



they have remained as long as is necessary I pass them on to 

 the next house, and then on to the next, and they do the woik 

 far better than I can, while my time is saved, and I am able to 

 be engaged on other matters." The result proves the excel- 

 lence of the practice, for we never saw finer crops, and the 

 trees were thinned (our times. 



We left Kood Ashtou wiser than we went, and charmed with 

 a visit which at first promised to be so unproductive. We 

 must caution those who, after reading these lines, may deter- 

 mine on visiting this splendid domain, that it is not a " show 

 place," and whatever gardening is done is with a view to 

 domestic use and utility. 



PLANT PROTECTORS— ABSURD NAMES. 



One of the follies of the tradesmen of the present day is the 

 absurd application of names to their articles — names totally 

 un-understandable or even rememberahle by the vast majority 

 even of the educated. I inquired recently of a friend, a first- 

 rate gardener though an amateur, which ho considered the 



best glazed shelter for wall fruit, and he replied—" The Cry- 

 moboethus." " What, in common language, is that ?" and he 

 acknowledged tliat ho did not know, but that it is a glazed 

 shelter which allowed plants, seedlings, and other things to be 

 grown under its shelter, whilst it protected the wall treef. 



WALL-TREK AND PLANT paOTECTOE, 



Now, can you tell me where this foolishly-named shelter is to 

 be obtained, why it is so named, and whether you consider it 

 efficient ? — An Amateur Gaehenkr. 



[We entirely agree with yoir as to the absurdity of such 

 names — it extends even to the ready-made-clothes dealers, for 

 we saw in Oxford Street that " Idoneous trousers " were there 

 to be had ! However, as we once heard a patent-medicine man 

 say, "I'm cursed with the name of Snooks, but that's nothing 

 to do with my medicine," and the Crymoboethus is a good 

 protector from frost (which is a literal interpretation of the 



name). We now publish an engraving of it, which we have 

 obtained from the maker, Mr. E. Lloyd, Horticultural Works, 

 Grantham. The sashes, made either of iron or wood, project 

 2 or 3 feet from the wall, supported on iron brackets. They 

 are so constructed that if desired one or more sashes can be 

 projected inclining to the ground at different angles. The 

 sashes are hung on hooks, and in summer could be all re- 

 moved, or each alternate sash could be made to open for 

 ventilation, and netting be fixed over the opening at a very 

 small cost.] 



GOLDEN CHAMPION GRAPE. 



Golden CnAiinoN has done exceedingly well with us this 

 season as a pot Vine. A thoroughly- ripened one-year-old cane 

 of it, which was gently started in a successional Pine stove in 

 December, has perfected some of the finest examples I ever 

 remember seeing. The heaviest bunch when cut weighed 

 '2i lbs., with berries as large as those produced on any planted- 



out established Vine. So perfect were they as to resemble a 

 very large-berried highly-finished bunch of Muscats. .\nd 

 what about the spot? Simply this, no spot or blemish was 

 ever perceptible — the result of precisely the same treatment as 

 that given to Hamburghs, Muscadines, Erontignans, ttc. ; 

 10-inch pots are the size used. Large pots for Vines, like 



